Automatic oiler.



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azionaria Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led April 6, 1914. Serial No. 829,915.

To all whom it may concern: i

Be it known that we, onvnonn GHYSELINCK and JOHN M. Drown, citizens of the United States, and residents of rloledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Automatic Oiler; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the v shaft or axle of a wheel or wheels and the oil is conveyed from the bottom of the box or a container to the shaft or the axle as the,

case may he. 'W e have shown the invention as applied to a railroad car axle.

The invention may be contained in many forms of construction usable for different purposes all of which come Within the purview of our claim hereinafter appended. To show the practicahility of our invention we have selected one oi2 such constructions ,as an example and shall describe it hereinafter. The construction' selected is illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

in 'the drawings, Figure l illustrates a sectional view oi a device embodying our invention. Fig. 2 illustrates a modiication of the construction shown in ig. l whichis particularly applicable to street car axles.,

Eig. 3 illustrates a supporting thiinble for containing one of the bearings oi the oiler. l is the oil inox for containing the oil 2.

hinged to the ears Il. The ear is supported indirectly upon the top 5 of the box. The

bearing 6 hears against the axle 7 in the' manner well known in the art. Thimhles 8 are secured by the threads 9 in the bottom of the' box l.. The upper ends or the thinibles 8 are provided with slots lll., @ne or more wheele il are supported axle iii;

clear, and exact description of thev flFhe ends of the verle extend throughslotslll located 1n thetop of the thimhles 8 and are movable vertically in the slots. The peripheries of the wheel il are channeled as at' fiber or other suitablel i3. il tire l' of material is molded, pressed or sprung into the periphery of the wheels 11V The material forming the rims may be greatly 'varied the object being to provide a slightly absorbent material or amaterial to which the oil will be more or less adhesive when they are rotated hy the operation of the axle The ends of the axle 12 are supported on a yielding hearing Al5 which is provided with two upwardly extending; lugs 16 located 'on opposite sides of each end of the axle lli/,4 The point l? at which' the bearing 15 supporte 'the end of the axle i2 is plane ci the axes of the hearing i5 and the axle l2 'to allow vertical movement of either end of the axle l2 relative to the other bearing. The hearings are ,also rounded 'strane0 verse the axle l2 to conform to the contenir ci? the ends of? alie axle l2. The hearings l5 are yieldingly supported by the spring i8 raten-Steenen. e, iota rounded. in the located in the bottom or the thimliles 8.

The axle bl2 is provided with fillets 19 at the points near Where it enters the thimloies 8- and the edges of the slots lare chamered so as to register with the iillet 19 to providek for lateral swing of the car and hex. A suitable washer of' copper or other soft metal 2i is located intermediate the head 22 of the thimlole 8 to bring the slots l0 in alinement with the axle i2 and securely lock the thimhles and forni a tight Et between the thirnhles 8 and the bottom oi the box l@ ln the operation of the device, the wheels il are rotated hy their pressure against the axle 'L the wheels lli being lifted lay the springs i8 against the arie 7 The loafer parte of the wheel ll are located below the surface of the oil 2 and in their rotation. they carry the oil to the axle 7, which, in its rotation, carries it between the hearing'l and the axle i2 "in this Wav the con stantly uniformly oiled.

The construction selected and descriined may ne greatly varied in the arrangement The eombnauon o; an exle and a beazag therefor, a box for eontammg the bearmg 5 and the end of the axle and oil, an oi Wheel lo @he edgee of the slots of the thmbles inthe bottom' of l"beaamgs hmmag bearing elmaees. rounded in the planes passing through the axis of the oil Wheel and swings located iny the bottomof the thmblee for yeldingly supporting the bearings and pressing the oil wheel against the first named axle.

in testimony whereof, 'We have hereunto signed our names to'ths specicatioiihe pesenee of two subscribing Witnesses.

- PGLYDORE GHYSELINGK.

59H31? M. DAU-WE.

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